Alan Patrick Herbert

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

I think us bad b*tc*es is a gift from God.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

A man can seldom – very, very, seldom – fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.